News

Alexander Podzorov has joined Mets from September 1st as a temporary visitor for a two months stay. He is a PhD student in Dr. Gallot's Terahertz Imaging and Spectroscopy group at the Laboratory for Optics and Biosciences at the Ecole Polytechnique (Palaiseau, France, http://www.lob.polytechnique.fr/english/presentation.htm) and joins Dr. Tanaka in his reflections on engineering light-metal interactions.

Mr. Ethan Schaler is a 2nd-year undergraduate student at the University of Maryland (USA) studying Mechanical Engineering. He is conducting nanophotonics research at the RIKEN Nanophotonics Lab for 9 weeks from 2008 June 9th as part of the Summer Nanotechnology Study Program in Japan (NanoJapan Program) sponsored by Rice University (USA).

「サイエンスフロンティア２１　（４２）光で見て創るナノワールド」が第49回科学技術映像祭において文部科学大臣賞を受賞致しました．(2008.4.21)
（４２）光で見て創るナノワールドは，科学技術振興機構（JST）がH19年度まで推進してきたCRESTタイプの研究課題「非線形ナノフォトニクス」（研究代表者　河田聡　主任研究員）の研究をお伝えする番組です．
光の波長限界を超えた分解能が可能となる近接場効果とラマン散乱を組み合わせた，ナノスケールの分解能を持つ新型顕微鏡の研究開発を紹介しています．

田中拓男准主任研究員が2008年度「ゴールド・メダル賞」を受賞しました．（東京テクノフォーラム21）

河田聡主任研究員が，「一家に1枚 光マップ」を監修，制作致しました．(2008.4.3)

Staff changed in April, 2008

New members,
Postdoctoral Fellows
Dr. Kentaro FURUSAWA

Undergraduate Students
Kenji KIUCHI
Kuniaki SAKAI
Masatoshi NAKANO

Graduation,
Kazuki ENDO (Bachelor)

　田中メタマテリアル研究室が発足いたしました．(2008.4.1)

田中拓男准主任研究員を中心にプラズモニック・メタマテリアルをテーマとした新しいナノフォトニクス分野の研究を推進致します．

河田聡主任研究員が紫綬褒章を受章しました．(2007.11.16)
河田聡主任研究員が，応用物理学研究の分野における功績により，平成19年度 秋の褒章で紫綬褒章を受章いたしました．

RIKEN Symposium, The 6th Nanophotonics Symposium, would be held on 22nd Nov. 2007. Program
In the 6th NaPs symposium of this year, we will mainly focused on the novel functional materials related to nanophotonics, such as super nano-magnetic beads, latice structure with metallic nanoparticles, plasmonic metamaterials, and anodic porous aluminum, and also to their application in optical memories and related nano-fabrication techniques. Additionally, Prof. Shimoda, who is the emeritus Prof. of Univ. of Tokyo and also the emeritus research scientist of RIKEN, will give us plenary talk related to prospective direction of the nanophotonics research.

Inernational Workshop on Advanced Technology and Science "Photonics and Nano-materials" is held on 2nd August, 2007. Program
This is pre-symposium for the 75th anniversary events of JSAP.

Mr. Andrew Bradshaw, a junior physics major from Texas A&M University, will be doing research for 9 weeks from June 4th. His research topic, metamaterials, will be performed as part of the Rice univerisity Nano-Japan summer research program.

Dr. Alvarado Tarun has joined NaPs as Postdoctoral Fellow. (2007. 6. 1)

Staff changed in April, 2007

New members,
Postdoctoral Fellows
Dr. Atsushi SAKURAI

Ph. D. course students
Masashi MOTOHASHI
Yaoyu CAO

Master course students
Kenji SUZUKI

Undergraduate Students
Kazuki ENDO
Issei NAKAMURA
Tatsuya NAKAYAMA

Graduation,
Atsushi ISHIKAWA (Ph. D.)
Jinfeng XING (Ph. D.)
Noriko IDA (Master)
Hirokazu IWAMOTO (Master)
Keitaro HARADA (Bachelor)
Hayafumi WATANABE (Bachelor)

田中拓男先任研究員が光学論文賞を受賞しました．pic.1 pic.2 pic.3 (2007. 3. 28)

Dr. Atsushi Taguchi has joined NaPs as JSPS fellow. (2007. 3. 1)

Dr. Florian Formanek got new job as project researcher at Sony.

RIKEN Symposium, The 5th Nanophotonics Symposium, was held on 26-27th Oct. 2006. Program
This is the 5th anniversary symposium of the founding of Nanophotonics Laboratory. The theme of this symposium is "Plasmonics and Nanophotonics". Prof. Xiang Zhang from Univ. California Berkeley and Prof. Maria Kafesaki from Inst. of Electronic Structure & Laser of FORTH and Prof. Wonho Jhe from Seoul National Univ. was invited.

Dr. Fekhra H'Dhili, Associate Professor at the faculty of science - El Mana University in Tunis, stays in NaPs for 3months from 1st July 2006 to 29th September. She will collaborate with us in plasmonic field.

Mr. Tyler Barth from Rice University stays in NaPs for 7 weeks from 19th June 2006 under Summer Nanotechnology Study Program in Japan (NanoJapan Program). He is now 3rd year undergraduate student belonged to Electrical Engineering of Rice University. He studies Plasmonic Metamaterial in NaPs.

Mr. Jingfeng Xing coming from Chinese Academy of Sciences stays in NaPs for six months from 13th June 2006. He will collaborate with us in photo-fabrication and metamaterial research fields.

Prof. Zouheir Sekkat from School of Science and Engineering, Al Akhawayn University, Morocco visited NaPs on 23rd May, 2006. He talked on "Molecular Orientation and Nanofabrication by Two- and Multi-photon Photoselection" at 11th Nanophotonics Seminar.

Prof. Fu-Jen Kao from Graduate Institute of Biophotonics Engineering in National Yang Ming University visited NaPs on 18th May, 2006. He talked on "FLIM/FRET_a Novel Tool for Molecular Dynamics Imaging" at 10th Nanophotonics Seminar.

Staff changed in April, 2006

New members,
Postdoctoral Fellows
Dr. Hidekazu ISHITOBI
Dr. Atsushi ONO

Ph. D. course students
Miyu Ozaki

Undergraduate Students
Yoko SEKINE
Keitaro HARADA
Hayafumi WATANABE

Graduation,
Atsushi ONO (Ph. D.)
Tomoe AOKI (Master)
Kenta CHIYODA (Master)
Takashi MURAKAMI (Master)
Yuichi YOSHIMURA (Master)

RIKEN News released on Jan. 2006 in Japanese
The first optically functional material with a "negative magnetic permeability" in the visible light region.

RIKEN News released on Dec. 2005 in Japanese
Establishment of the optical nano-imaging technique by a metallic nanostructure for the first time in the world.

Prof. Din Ping Tsai from Photonics / Nano-Science & Technology Laboratory (PNSTL) in National Taiwan University stayed in NaPs.

RIKEN News released on Feb. 2005 in Japanese
"Utilizing Light in the Nanoworld"
Using light to see the nanoworld
Seeing the nanoworld in color
Smallest laser sculptured bull featured in Guinness World Records
Three-dimensional optical memory device
Nanomachines that combat cancer cells
Pioneering plasmonics

RIKEN NaPs symposium on Oct. 2005
"3-D Nanofabrication and Nanophotonics"